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Fortify warns that smartphone app developers must embrace secure code development strategies

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Fortify Software has warned that developers of applications (apps) for smartphones such as the Apple iPhone and Google Android must embrace the principles of secure code development, otherwise the integrity of users' mobile phone data could be seriously at risk.

The warning from the software security authority comes after researchers at Rutgers University in the US have developed a proofofconcept rootkit capable of compromising most aspects of a smartphone.

"The researchers have developed a fullblown hacker code methodology that allows all the features of a smartphone - including its microphone, global positioning system and even the battery - to be
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